Dr Manmohan Singh

The Prime Minister of India

NEW DELHI

Sir,

This is to communicate some of our concerns
to you as our beloved leader. Over the last few years we have been seeing a
concerted Anglo-Saxon military and diplomatic campaign against the Muslim world,
which forms a sizeable chunk of the Afro-Asian, post-colonial world.

It was evident from the late 80s of the last
century that after the disintegration of the USSR and its East European, Baltic
and Central Asian empire and area of influence, the Anglo-Saxons were going to
target the Muslim world. Years before the September 11, the neocon PNAC had said
it was looking for something like the Pearl Harbor attack to begin a crusade
against Muslim world.

Asian and African countries, one after the
other, are being convinced and browbeat nations with a bludgeon. The way
Afghanistan and Iraq have been destroyed shows how serious the democratisers
really are. It will be instructive to remember that today’s targets of
Anglo-Saxon aggression had earlier been great friends of America and Britain.

India has always stood for national
sovereignty and right to freedom of every Afro-Asian country. Now that national
independence of Afghans, Iraqis and others is being trampled under Anglo-Saxon
military boots, India should be seen to be standing with the victims, rather
than with the aggressors.

Today what is at stake is India’s long
tradition of standing up and being counted when some fellow Afro-Asian country
is targetted for imperialist oppression.

We hope that under your able leadership the
country would think of its own interests first instead of accepting to become an
instrument of American foreign policy be getting involved in Iraq, Iran or
Afghanistan. National honour and national interests have to be the only criteria
in our foreign policy. Independent political decision making and solidarity with
the weak should continue to be our guiding principles. Our voice should be
raised in international fora not in favour of the aggressor but the victims.